Overview
Categories and tags are two complementary ways to organize your blog content in Postnomic. They help readers find relevant posts and improve your blog's structure for both navigation and SEO.
Categories
Categories represent the primary topics of your blog. They provide a broad, hierarchical way to group related posts.
Creating Categories
- Navigate to your blog's Categories page in the dashboard
- Click Add Category
- Enter the category name (e.g., "Tutorials", "News", "Case Studies")
- Set a slug — a URL-friendly identifier auto-generated from the name
- Optionally add a description
- Save the category
Using Categories
When creating or editing a post, select one or more categories from the category picker. Categories are displayed on post detail pages and can be used to filter the blog listing.
Best Practices for Categories
- Keep the number of categories manageable — 5 to 15 is typical
- Use categories for broad topics that will contain many posts
- Choose clear, descriptive names that readers immediately understand
- Each post should belong to at least one category
Tags
Tags are specific descriptors that provide fine-grained classification of post content. Unlike categories, tags are flat (no hierarchy) and more granular.
Creating Tags
Tags can be created in two ways:
- From the Tags page — Navigate to Tags in your blog dashboard and click Add Tag to create tags in advance.
- Inline while editing — When editing a post, type a new tag name in the tag field. If it does not exist, it will be created automatically.
Each tag has:
- Name — The display name (e.g., "C#", "Docker", "Performance")
- Slug — A URL-friendly identifier, unique within the blog
Using Tags
Add as many tags as are relevant to a post. Tags appear on post detail pages and enable readers to discover related content. Common tag usage patterns:
- Technology names:
csharp,docker,azure - Concepts:
performance,security,best-practices - Content types:
tutorial,deep-dive,quick-tip
Filtering Posts
Both categories and tags can be used to filter the blog post listing:
- By category — Click a category name in the blog UI to see only posts in that category
- By tag — Click a tag to see all posts with that tag
The Client SDKs support these filters through the public API endpoints, which accept category and tag parameters for querying.
SEO Benefits
Well-structured categories and tags improve your blog's search engine visibility:
- Category pages create topical landing pages that search engines can index
- Tags generate additional keyword-rich pages
- Consistent taxonomy helps search engines understand your content structure
- Internal linking through categories and tags distributes page authority across your blog
Managing Categories and Tags
From the dashboard, editors and admins can:
- Edit — Update names, slugs, and descriptions
- Delete — Remove a category or tag. Posts are not deleted, but the association is removed.
- Merge — Consolidate duplicate or similar tags by reassigning posts and deleting the redundant tag
Keep your taxonomy clean by periodically reviewing unused categories and tags.